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New in paperback: Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube
Pat’s book Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube is now available in paperback! the book received many positive reviews and was a Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor book for 2015.
Continue reading →Our Work
COVID, murder, riots, fear, sadness. Privately, we sigh, each remains accountable for ourselves, family, friends, children, our beautiful yet complex and unfair world, the circle of us spinning in space in gravity. “Working expands my soul,” says “Anna” … Continue reading →
Ode to El Paso
Stubborn mountain, rock anchor, you grew from cuentos carried at night in the wind’s dry hands, seed pebbles that became your wide-hipped, unmovable contours, curves where finches and secretive spiders nest. Poet of ancient seas and baritone fossils, of trilobites … Continue reading →
Do you know Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz?
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century nun who devoted her life to writing and learning and words. Though she died in 1695, Sor Juana Inés is still considered one of the most brilliant writers in Mexico’s … Continue reading →